NEW YORK -- It's not the first time that Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee's 1989 film has again found blistering relevance in the wake of George Floyd's death.
18.05.2020 - 18:13 / tvguide.com
Spike Lee will now join the ranks with Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, Noah Baumbach, and Bong Joon Ho as the latest auteur director to develop a movie for Netflix. His latest joint — the first since his Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman — is Da 5 Bloods, which set to debut on Friday, June 12. On Monday, the streaming service released a trailer for the pic, and it looks appropriately epic.
Da 5 Bloods puts a particularly Spike Lee-esque spin on the typical war movie, centering around four black
NEW YORK -- It's not the first time that Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee's 1989 film has again found blistering relevance in the wake of George Floyd's death.
The music for the Netflix movie is composed by GRAMMY Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard
The music for the Netflix movie is composed by GRAMMY Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard
While the drama behind the scenes regarding the budget of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming period crime thriller, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is well-documented, there haven’t been many details about what caused the initial friction between Paramount and the filmmaker. Well, until now.
Even in lockdown, Martin Scorsese can’t keep from making movies.
Martin Scorsese self-shot a short film in his New York City home that saw him reflect on his self-isolation caused by the coronavirus pandemic through the lens of classic films. The 77-year-old director filmed the short for the BBC series “Lockdown Culture with Mary Beard,” which has seen many prominent Hollywood figures tell their stories of being in lockdown due to the pandemic through various creative means.
The director shot the film himself
Spike Lee is on the verge of releasing his latest feature, the highly-anticipated Netflix film, “Da 5 Bloods.” But just because Netflix is footing the bill for his new feature, which takes place both in the modern-day and five decades in the past, don’t go thinking that Lee got the same budget that other awards-worthy films from the streaming company have received over the years.
Martin Scorsese is set to join the ranks of David F. Sandberg and Lotta Losten, Spike Lee, Michel Gondry, and other filmmakers as people who have taken their time in COVID-19-induced lockdown to create something new.
"We're second-class citizens"
Netflix has released the very first trailer for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods which was reportedly set to debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The movie will arrive on the streaming platform next month and looks absolutely superb.
Netflix has shared the trailer for Spike Lee's Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods, in advance of it's full premiere on June 12.
All eyes were going to be on Spike Lee’s follow up to his Oscar winning effort BlacKkKlansman. After all, it not just was a hit, getting nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, it got Lee his first Academy Award, taking home the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Netflix has given film fans a first look at Spike Lee’s much-anticipated new Vietnam War drama.
New movie starring Chadwick Boseman will drop on Netflix
Chadwick Boseman plays a Vietnam war solider burying treasure in the first trailer for Spike Lee’s new film Da 5 Bloods.